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View and edit app

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The app created by Web AppBuilder is saved as an item in My Content. The item type is Web Mapping Application. Go to My Content and click the item's context menu to view or edit the app.

View application

On the item details page, click the arrow on the Open button and select View Application to start the app.

If the App State check box on the Attributes tab is checked, when you close your browser, the app state, including map extent and layer visibility, is automatically saved. As a result, you will see the same app state the next time you open the app in the same browser.

Caution:

The app state is not applied when one of the following URL parameters is used:

extent

center

marker

find

query

scale

level

Edit application

On the item details page, click the arrow on the Open button and select Edit Application to edit the app in Web AppBuilder. Once you finish editing, save the app.

Note:

The administrator can directly edit and save the app created by other members of the organization. When an app is shared to a group with update capability, the group members can directly edit and save the app as well.